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The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$66kCrime & Legal$15kHuman Services$13kInternational$12kHealth$11kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$8kReligion$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$857k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ROSE OF LIMA SCHOOL INC$10,000
THE CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT AND EDUCATION INC$5,000
THE WATER PROJECT INC$5,000
ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC$5,000
CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC$5,000
MALTA HOUSE INC$2,500
INNOCENCE PROJECT INC$2,500
FAITH FOOD PANTRY OF NEWTOWN INC$2,500
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM FOUNDATION$2,500
JERICHO PARTNERSHIP INC$2,500
DEERFIELD VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED$2,500
MALTA CAMP USA INC$2,500
ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY$1,000
WILMINGTON WORKS INC$1,000
MISSION SANTA MARIA INC$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $3k → 17%TEARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$145k · 15 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$145k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+27%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionInternationalHousing & ShelterHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TW
    THE WATER PROJECT INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +14%
  • TC
    The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • MH
    MALTA HOUSE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TF
    Tears Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -39%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Globalgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury

The st. vincent depaul mission of waterbury, inc., through its network of services, aids, supports and empowers people experiencing poverty, homelessness, hunger, and mental health challenges so they may recover with dignity and develop…

Health
2
St Vincent Depaul Middletown

St. vincent depaul middletown (svdm) was founded in 1980 by the sisters of mercy and the catholic diocese of norwich. svdm's mission is to provide food, shelter and basic human services to poor and homeless individuals regardless of race,…

3
Inspirica Inc

Inspirica is one of the largest providers of emergency housing, permanent supportive housing and support services in connecticut. each night, we house over 500 people including children. we operate 12 facilities in stamford and provide an…

4
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc

Anchored in faith our mission is to emvrace the dignity of evry individual by fostering empowerment resilience opportunity and hope

5
Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation

Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…

Housing & Shelter
6
Catholic Charities of Buffalo

For 100 years, catholic charities of buffalo has been providing hope for the most vulnerable and in need in our community. catholic charities is one of the most comprehensive human services organizations serving all eight counties of…

Philanthropy
7
Cathedral Center Inc

Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…

Religion
8
Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc

Catholic charities' mission is to welcome and serve, with compassion and respect, all those in need by providing life's necessities, education, and advocacy to move families toward self sufficiency. catholic charities boston is one of the…

9
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
10
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
11
Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties

The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.

Human Services
12
Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford

Mission: reflecting god's love, we partner with all to strengthen families and inspire people to achieve their fullest potential.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Malta Camp Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST ROSE OF LIMA SCHOOL INC — $66,000 · OtherST ROSE OF LIMA SCHOOL INCThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $10,000 · OtherThe Center For Empowerment And Education IncCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INC — $7,000 · OtherCROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $6,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC — $6,000 · OtherST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC+4 more — $9,600 · Other+4 moreTHE WATER PROJECT INC — $12,000 · InternationalMALTA HOUSE INC — $9,500 · Housing & ShelterTears Foundation — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesJERICHO PARTNERSHIP INC — $4,500 · Community ImprovementWILMINGTON WORKS INC — $3,000 · Community ImprovementDEERFIELD VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC — $3,500 · Food & NutritionFAITH FOOD PANTRY — $2,500 · Food & NutritionMISSION SANTA MARIA — $3,500 · Education
Other$105,100International$12,000Housing & Shelter$9,500Human Services$9,500Community Improvement$7,500Food & Nutrition$6,000Education$3,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTears Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJERICHO PARTNERSHIP INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEERFIELD VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC — $3,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMISSION SANTA MARIA — $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMALTA CAMP USA INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILMINGTON WORKS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of RhodesNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes · Synchrony Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 15%
  • Wilmington Works Inc15% of income from government
  • Jericho Partnership Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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